This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: hjd123 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/172.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Just so you know, Merle Seitz died April 9, 2002. Bea and Merle were both very nice people! And thanks for posting the link for the West-Barker-Hodges pdf. I'm very glad to have gotten it! Hello to one of the Canadian branch from one of the Wisconsin branch. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: clueless158 Surnames: Lattin Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/711.71/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Yes I'm looking for Nelson and Eliza Lattin who resided in Troy,Walworth,County,they appear in the 1850 census along with thier children Mary,Caroline,Sarah,William and Arminta or Helen Arminta,by 1855 Nelson and Eliza are nowhere to be found and the children are back in Trumbull Ohio in different households,with the exception if Mary and Arminta/Helen Arminta who are missing.I'm looing for information as to if Nelson and Eliza died there and if there are any records on them. Many Thanks..Robert Ferrin Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pjoh558985 Surnames: wantdke Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2394.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: For information on the Fred Wandtkefamily mail to pjoh558985@verizon.net Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pjoh558985 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2394.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: For information on the Fred Wandtkefamily mail to pjoh558985@verizon.net Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pjoh558985 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2394.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Sorry about not checking the web sooner You have named Fred Wandtke I have that family line from my Grandmother Irene Wandtke,and the family history that she wrote on the Family Fred has a few seblings Pj Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Well!! Where's this new tool for Delavan?? Post the URL!! wiwalwor-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Powerful new communication tool for Delavan (Jim Maglione) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:34:05 -0700 From: "Jim Maglione" Subject: [WIWALWOR] Powerful new communication tool for Delavan To: wiwalwor@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <200710050935.l959YGG8002583@mail.rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain ------------------------------ To contact the WIWALWOR list administrator, send an email to WIWALWOR-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the WIWALWOR mailing list, send an email to WIWALWOR@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WIWALWOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of WIWALWOR Digest, Vol 2, Issue 125 ****************************************

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ahimel1 Surnames: Curtiss, Marshall Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/711.70/mb.ashx Message Board Post: First thank you so much for your kind offer. I live in Colorado and my mother in Wisconsin is getting a little old to travel. A Eliza A. Curtiss died in Walworth County, Wis, on 10, July , 1899. She was born in Ny as Eliza A Marshall on Nov 28, 1826 according to the family bible. I would appreciate any information I can get on her. Thank you again. Ann PS Her husband was John Curtiss Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Janette_Halligan Surnames: Beckwith Young Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/711.69.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you !!! My Great-great grandfather George Monroe Young was adopted into the family of Nelson Beckwith. George was born November 17, 1845 in East Troy, Walworth Co., WI According to a cousin: Family oral history states, a neighbor adopted George Monroe Beckwith after his mother died. George's father went to California for the Gold Rush and was never heard from after he left. George was passed around between several different families before the Beckwith's took him in and he later adopted the Beckwith name. The Samuel Atherton Collection, The Shelby Michigan Genealogies states that George Monroe was the foster son of Alexander Beckwith. The California gold rush peak migration was in 1849-1850, George would have been 4-5 years old when his father left. According to the 1850 Federal Census in East Troy, in the County of Walworth, State of Wisconsin, there is a George Young, age 5 born in Wisconsin living with Nelson and Comfort Nancy Beckwith. We don't know who Georges birth parents are but, Would there be any chance of a birth record for a Geo M Young in Nov of 1845 showing his parents names? Or any marriages of a Young to a Monroe? Or death record of a female Young between the years of 1845-1850? I know that sometimes family names were used for middle names (Monroe). It may be a long shot, but I thank you for even offering this service! Gratefully, Janette Halligan Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ShirleySisk77 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2432.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I checked at the courthouse today for death records from 1930 through 1965 and didn't find Clarence and Lillie Robbins in Walworth County, Wis. There was an Alma Lydia Robbins in 1952 and a Leon Henry Robbins in 1965 and those were the only two in that time period named Robbins. Maybe Clarence and Lillie moved away from Delavan and died some other place. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kjblackburn11 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2432/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Looking for death dates and place for Clarence and Lillie (Weaver) Robbins. Clarence was born in 1860 and Lillie was born in 1863. They were still alive in 1930. Might have died at Delavan. They aren't buried at Spring Grove Cemetery. Thanks, KJB Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kjblackburn11 Surnames: Lankford, Blackburn Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2431/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Seeking information about Eugene, Lori and John Lankford. Husband and children of Nancy Carol Blackburn b. 10-15-1945 Delavan. Eugene and Nancy were living in Delavan in 1966. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ShirleySisk77 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2430.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Here is the data from the marriage on 23 January 1850 in Volume 2A, page 142 of Walworth County Marriage Records in Wisconsin. Index says 23 January 1850 - Martha Hulverson and Wickley Toleson. (My comment is that possibly it could be Halverson on the original record, someone might have interpreted it wrong. I don't know.) This record is written in paragraph form. Wickley Toleson and Martha Hulverson, State of Wisconsin, Walworth County. I hereby certify that on the 23rd inst. in presence of 4 wits I married Wickley Toleson and Miss Martha Hulverson after examining under oath the said Wekley Toleson according to law and finding no legal impediment thereto. (S.S. or L.L.) Barlow, Justice of the Peace. recorded Jan. 28, 1850, W. H. Pettit, Clerk. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: janealogy50 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2417.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Julie (?), It would be terrific to receive the pictures of the cemetery. You could e-mail the jpeg photo to janetix@roadrunner.com and I would be so appreciative! Yes, it is possible that Martha Halvorsen was Tosten's older sister. But I'm sure you know there were a lot of Halvorsen/Halverson families in Wisconsin at the time. Have you checked Digitalarkivet? The following information applies to her: Birth Record, Digitised Parish Records, "Marthe Halvorsdatter Svendsøe; b. 29 Aug 1818; bap. 13 Sep 1818; Father: Halvor Halvorsen; Mother: Ingeborg Knudsdatter Svendsøe; Bø, Bratsberg amt, Norway," Page 53 of original document; Bø 1815-1831; Digitalarkivet; Archives of Norwa Bratsberg amt is the old name for modern Telemark. Using the Digitalarkivet website, you could check the Bø parish church book (kirkebok) for 1828 and try to find Tosten. I just tried but the servers apparently are very slow tonight in Norway. Let me know if you have trouble, OK? Jan Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JulieMarch22 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2417.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jan - thank you so much for the information. You have researched very thoroughly. I did take digital pictures and will try to send them to you. Is it possible that your Marthe Halvorson is a sibling to Tosten Halvorson (1828-1909)from Telemark? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: janealogy50 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2417.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, I'll give you what I've written in my "book" thus far: No railroads had been built yet to transport Kari and her family from New York City to their final destination in Wisconsin. Instead, they traveled by steamship up the Hudson River to the town of Troy, a short distance above Albany, a trip that usually took less than ten hours. They disembarked there, and their baggage was weighed and loaded onto a canal boat on the Erie Canal. This flat packet boat was pulled slowly by teams of horses that brought them to Buffalo, on the shore of Lake Erie, eight to nine days later. [Photo is a modern re-creation of an 1840's packet boat on the Erie Canal near Rome, New York.] Whether Kari and family members stayed for awhile in Buffalo or departed immediately is not known. A delay may have been necessary if their Great Lakes steamship wasn't ready. According to Telemark to America, the cost of the ship at the time was $8 for adults, $4 for children under fourteen, and free for infants. Again, immigrants often fell prey to thieves an! d scoundrels who dared to take advantage of their naiveté. In the words of a Norwegian immigrant, written in December 1843, "If anyone thinks of coming here you must watch out for cheating and not pay passage for all the way, but from New York to Albany, from Albany to Buffalo, and from there to Cicago (sic) or Millevauci (sic)." From Buffalo, a large steamship ferried immigrants across the Great Lakes - Erie, Huron, and Michigan - to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The last leg of their odyssey was made using wagons driven by horses or oxen, unless they could not afford such a luxury, in which case they walked. From Milwaukee they journeyed southwest nearly 50 miles, until they arrived at the Skoponong settlement in the township of La Grange in Walworth County, Wisconsin. Along the way, they might have spent a night as guests in Even Heg's barn. Heg was a Norwegian who settled at Muskego, about twenty miles west of Milwaukee. His hospitality toward newly arrived Norwegian im! migrants was legendary. The first Norwegians had come to Skoponong in 1842. Others followed, including Kari and son Hans Frantssen, who probably arrived at the end of summer 1843. Skoponong was a small Norwegian settlement, one of several of its kind in Walworth County. Tucked into the northwest corner of La Grange Township, it was about five miles northeast of the town of Whitewater and extended north a bit into Jefferson County near the town of Palmyra [map]. Early in 1844, an urgent call from the Norwegian immigrants was sent to Bishop Sørenson of the Church of Norway. They requested that a minister be sent to the West as quickly as possible. But a young, university-trained clergyman, J.W.C. Dietrichson, had already arrived before the bishop received this request. The ever-confident Reverend Dietrichson furiously plunged into activity. On September 1, 1844, he preached his first sermon in a barn at Koshkonong settlement, several miles west of Skoponong. According to a Whitewater Register newspaper article published in September 1924, the minister came to Skoponong about a week later. Nearly twenty Norwegian families were located in the settlement at that time, and the first service was held in the home of one of these in September 1844. Reverend Dietrichson quickly organized the Skoponong congregation and, as he had done at Koshkonong, became its first pastor. The building of a church at Skoponong did not begin until 1! 849. It was made of logs, "hunted laboriously from the distant Bark woods," according to the article. The site for the church and cemetery comprised one acre, purchased from Tollef Graue, a member of the settlement. Among the twenty or so families of the congregation, each head of family paid Tollef ten cents. Given that he had paid $1.25 for the land, Tollef turned a bit of a profit. The log church served its purpose for twenty years, until it was replaced in 1869. Nobody could have foreseen how difficult the first years in Wisconsin would be. Imagine how challenging the differences in language, customs, climate, and landscape must have been for the new arrivals. And few were prepared for the sickness - especially the fever - that struck the settlements with a vengeance. In his book, Nordmændene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad recalled a story told by a Norwegian who arrived at Skoponong in 1846. "From New York we went by canal boat to Buffalo and from there to Milwaukee by steamship. Milwaukee was a very small city at that time. There were only a few stores. From there we went by ox and wagon to the so-called Skoponong settlement at Whitewater. When we got here, nearly all the settlers were down with ague. It was a sad situation." Ague is marked by malaria-like symptoms - chills, fever, and sweating at regular intervals. Although it seldom resulted in death, it was debilitating. In many homes, entire families were down with th! e fever and unable to help one another. George Tobias Flom, in A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States, wrote the following about the summer and fall of 1846 at Heart Prairie, a Norwegian settlement near Skoponong. ".(T)here was so much sickness here that there was hardly anyone well enough to bury those that died; and well I can remember that the men had to come down to our house and rest before they could finish the grave, and well I can remember that the cow stood outside bellowing to be milked and no one was able to milk her; everybody was thirsty as all had fever and ague and had to go a mile for water before we got to the well, and sometimes no one (was) able to go after it. I am sure a great many died for want of care, as there was none that understood the English language and (they) did not understand how to take their medicine. Those were hard times, and to many this account may seem incredible; nevertheless, it is true and I could write volumes! and tell true incidents of the trials and hardships that the old pion eers had to endure." I'm still trying to find photos online (using Google) of the cemetery. I'm sure it was pretty when you went. If you took digital photos and know how to email them, I'd love to have a jpeg copy. Good luck with your research! Jan Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JulieMarch22 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2417.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jan, I just came back from the Skoponong Cemetery researching the Halverson/Halvorson family. I, too, am looking for information regarding the settlement. Can you share any information? My sister-in-law and I are very new at this, but were thrilled to find the area. It's a beautiful quiet place. Thank you- Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: janealogy50 Surnames: Torjussen, Torgerson, Frantsen Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/2430/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, My ancestor, Vetle Torjussen (AKA Wetle Torgerson - b. Kviteseid, Telemark, Norway), his wife Karen Kristine Frantsdatter, and their young son Torjus arrived at the Skoponong settlement in La Grange Township, Walworth, in 1843. Karen died sometime around 1848. Church records for Skoponong Church do not exist for that time, however. Then Vetle remarried, supposedly on 23 Jan 1850, to Marthe Halvorsen (Halvorsdatter). I am wondering if somebody has access to the Skoponong church records who could verify this second marriage. I would be very grateful. Thanks! Sincerely, Jan Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tsm271_1 Surnames: Curtis Classification: birth Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.walworth/711.69/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, I'm trying to make a connection between my grandfather, Charles E. Curtis, possible DOB 10 March 1883 and Hiram H.Humphrey and Mary Allen Curtis. Hiram Curtis was the son of Lewis Curtis of Walworth County, WI. My grandfather supposedly had a twin sister - name unknown. In the US census I found a Annie Curtis born of Hiram & Mary Curtis born in Feb. of 1883. My grandfather was alledgely disowned by his father for reasons unknown. Thanks in advance for any information. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.